People v. Hockett

Appeal from judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Luis Ñeco, J.), rendered March 22, 1984, which convicted defendant, after a jury trial, of the crime of robbery in the second degree (Penal Law § 160.10), and sentenced him, as a violent predicate felon, to an indeterminate prison term of from 5Vx to 11 years, held in abeyance, and the action is remanded to the trial court to hold an evidentiary hearing concerning the prosecutor’s exercise of his peremptory challenges, in accordance with Batson v Kentucky (476 US —, 90 L Ed 2d 69).

Following the completion of jury selection, and before the…